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Rest API refresh extracts on Tableau Online

Tom W Feb 6, 2017 11:44 AM

Hi All,

I'd like to know if it's possible for me to use the official or unofficial REST API endpoints to refresh an extract as a once off on Tableau Online?

I've followed a couple of tutorials to hit the runExtractRefreshesOnDatasources endpoint but I keep getting 401 unauthorized. I'm fetching the x-tableau-auth token correctly, so I have to wonder if this isn't something that's blocked in Tableau online as apposed to my code not working.

Any thoughts / suggestions would be appreciated!

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Tom W Feb 7, 2017 9:18 AM (in response to Tom W)

I thought I had this working yesterday as I got it to work through Postman in Chrome by testing the rest calls, but that was a false positive as it was reading from my cookies in Chrome

I did however finally get it working last night and I've written a post outlining the challenges I faced and posted up my code - C# Utility to remotely trigger an extract refresh using undocumented REST API - Tableau Version 10
Basically what it boiled down to is the existing C# examples were referencing old API endpoints which are no longer supported in Tableau Version 10.
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